We provide integrated mental health, learning disability and community health services for a population of a million people in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. With a passion for quality, integration and excellence, our 5,400 staff are working to advance health and wellbeing for you and your community.

How We Make Decisions

Our Trust Board heads up a governance structure made up of key committees that provide assurance to the Board about different aspects of our work. Good governance leads to better patient care and allows the Trust Board to demonstrate proper accountability to local people for the safe running of their health service.

The Trust Board approved a revised structure for future governance arrangements and the sub committees of the Board.

The committees of the board are:

Audit and Assurance Committee

Finance and Performance Committee

Quality Assurance Committee

Remuneration Committee

The Trust Board commissions task and finish groups around specific programmes of work as required, and has established a Quality Improvement Programme Board and a Strategic Workforce Group.

Any risks that might emerge on which LPT needs to make decisions and take responsive action are reviewed and dealt with at the appropriate level in the governance structure.

To understand how we make decisions, in particular relating to finance, and how we delegate decision-making, the Trust has Standing Orders, Standing Financial Instructions and Schemes of Reservation & Delegation (SOs, SFIs and SORD). These documents have been split into separate documents, and you can click on each one below to open them: